world Geography: South America
The richest 20 percent of the South American population control what percentage of the realm's wealth?
70 percent
What percentage of South Americans lives in urban areas?
80
Which of the following regions is not located in Argentina?
Altiplano
The country that contains the Pampa, the Chaco, and Patagonia is __________.
Argentina
The desert in the north of Chile is the:
Atacama.
Brazil's Polonoroeste Plan has called for settlement near the border with:
Bolivia.
The capital of Brazil is:
Brasília.
The largest country in terms of landmass in South America is:
Brazil
Which South American country was most transformed by the forced immigration of Africans in bondage?
Brazil
Which of the following statements regarding Brazil is false?
Brazil's population is one of the fastest growing in the developing world.
Argentina's dominant city is:
Buenos Aires
Copper and nitrates are two resources that strongly shaped the economic development of _________ during the past century.
Chile
Which of the following countries does not contain a portion of the Amazon Basin?
Chile
The best example of an elongated state in South America, and probably the world, is:
Chile.
Which of the following countries does not have a common border with Bolivia?
Colombia
Which of the following countries is an associate member of the Mercosur trading bloc?
Colombia
Which of the following was the core area of the Incan Empire?
Cuzco
About 90 percent of Chile's population is concentrated in the country's northern region around the city of Atacama.
False
Argentina is the second largest country in South America in both area and population.
False
Brasília may be called a core area capital.
False
Brazil attained independence from Portugal about 100 years after the rest of South America gained its independence from Spain.
False
Brazil is a federal republic; its largest States lie in the east and northeast.
False
Ecuador is the poorest country in South America.
False
Guayaquil is the capital of Ecuador.
False
Iquitos is Bolivia's "Atlantic port."
False
Lake Maracaibo in Ecuador is the focus of the oil industry in that country.
False
Landlocked Bolivia is not disadvantaged because it has excellent river connections to both the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans.
False
Lima, the capital of Peru, is located in one of the most populous basins of the Andes.
False
Middle Chile is a rugged, fjorded region characterized by extreme aridity.
False
Paraguay is South America's only landlocked country.
False
The Itaipu Dam represents the best possible hope for the development of Brazil's Northeast.
False
The gap between rich and poor in South America is narrowing.
False
Unlike the Caribbean and North America, Brazil never had a major influx of Africans, so the black component in the population today is negligible.
False
Uruguay's major farming region lies in the immediate hinterland of the capital, Santiago.
False
Although Guyana and Suriname were granted independence from Britain and the Netherlands, respectively, the third Guiana continues to be a colony of __________.
France
In Ecuador, a regional split is observed between:
Guayaquil and Quito
The pre-Columbian Amerindian empire centered in the northern Andean altiplanos and headquartered at Cuzco, was the __________ civilization.
Inca
Which of the following is true of the current pattern of settlement of the Brazilian North?
It has resulted in a disruption of the aboriginal way of life in Amazonia.
Which of the following is true of Brazil's northeast?
It was Brazil's source area: its early plantation economy first developed here
Which of the following is true of the country of Guyana?
It was a British colony before independence in 1966
What is a moderating influence on the colder climate of west-central Bolivia?
Lake Titicaca
Which of the following capital and country associations is incorrect?
Montevideo and Paraguay
Which river basin holds the immense Llanos desert?
Orinoco
Most of Argentina's population is clustered in the:
Pampas
Which landlocked South American country would stand to benefit the most from the hidrovia waterway project?
Paraguay
Which of the following countries contains a population whose ethnicity is dominated by Amerindian ancestry?
Paraguay
Which of the following countries is landlocked?
Paraguay
The "Triple Frontier" is where which of the following three countries come together?
Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil
The language of the Inca state, still spoken in parts of South America, is known as:
Quechua
The capital of Brazil before the founding of Brasília was __________.
Rio de Janeiro
Which of the following cities is not the largest urban center in its country?
Rio de Janeiro
What is the Brazilian subregion with the most diverse European population?
South
The Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 stipulated that a north-south boundary was to be drawn separating what two territories?
Spain and Portugal
Brazil's most populous city is __________.
São Paulo
South America's largest city in population size, which surpassed nearby Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, is __________.
São Paulo
What Brazilian State is the most populous, with more than 20 percent of the total population?
São Paulo
What Brazilian area is the world's leading producer of orange juice concentrate?
São Paulo State
Which of the following is true of Venezuela and Colombia as compared with the Guianas?
They have been more successful in replacing the plantation economy.
A growth pole is a location where a set of activities, given a start, will expand and generate widening ripples of development in the surrounding area.
True
Argentina's Pampa region contains the vast majority of the country's population.
True
Belo Horizonte is a major metallurgical center in Brazil's Southeast.
True
Bolivia's central government functions are divided between two cities.
True
Brazil contains the largest Japanese community outside Japan.
True
Brazil exports large quantities of coffee, orange juice concentrate, and soybeans.
True
Brazil has common borders with every South American country except Chile and Ecuador.
True
Brazil is the South American country that exhibits the widest income gap.
True
Brazil's rate of population increase has slowed considerably over the past three decades.
True
Following independence in 1975, one-quarter of the population of Suriname emigrated to the Netherlands.
True
Guyana and Suriname have substantial South Asian populations.
True
Paraguay is one of the only countries in the world to boast widespread use of an indigenous language.
True
South America's population distribution may be characterized as peripheral, with the greater majority of people living on or near the coast.
True
The Incas were true colonizers who contributed much of their culture to the areas they occupied.
True
The South is Brazil's most "European" region, where European languages other than Portuguese still remain in use.
True
The São Paulo area, once a center for automobile manufacturing, is now the largest site of the country's burgeoning high-tech industry.
True
The Zone of Maturity in the South American city contains the best housing beyond the spine.
True
The cerrado is one of the world's most promising areas of agricultural development.
True
The land surrounding Lake Titicaca, which lies on the Peru-Bolivia border, has supported the cultivation of potatoes and grains for centuries.
True
The sertão is in Brazil's Northeast.
True
The slums and poverty-stricken neighborhoods of the Latin American city occupy the outer urban ring as well as least desirable sectors leading away from the city center.
True
Which of the following countries has the South American realm's most compact territorial shape?
Uruguay
The country of ___________ is South America's leading exporter of crude oil.
Venezuela
Which of the following best defines an altiplano?
a high-altitude valley of the Andes
Which of the following best describes a growth pole?
a location where a set of activities emerge, setting off ripples of development in a surrounding area
Which of the following best defines fazendas?
coffee plantations
In the Latin American city model, the elite residential sector contains the:
commercial/industrial spine.
The birth rate in Brazil over the past decade has:
declined.
The slums of South America's large cities are known as:
favelas or barrios
Which of the following best defines the cerrado?
fertile savannas of Brazil's Interior subregion
Unlike Peru's coast, Ecuador's coastland consists of:
fertile tropical plains
Where is Bogotá, Colombia's capital city, located?
in an Andean Basin
Volta Redonda is most closely identified with Brazil's:
iron and steel manufacturing activities.
The leading agricultural activity of the Pampa region is the production of:
meat and grain.
The dominant economic activity in Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo Lowland is:
oil production.
The dry inland backcountry in Brazil's Northeast is known as the:
sertão.
The disamenity sector of the Latin American city model is an inward, narrow sectoral extension of the:
slum areas known as barrios or favelas
Which of the following areas is closest to Chile's copper deposits?
the Atacama Desert
In 1982, Argentina fought a war with Britain over:
the Falkland Islands.
Rubber production has had the greatest impact on which Brazilian subregion?
the North
The country that presently administers the Falkland Islands and that responded to the Argentinean invasion of 1982 by launching a successful military expedition is __________.
the United Kingdom
Which of the following is an element of the informal sector of the economy?
unlicensed sellers of homemade goods
